Types of attacks
A scammer creates a fake email and sends it to thousands of people, hoping some of them will click on a link and give up their personal information.
What is Phishing?
(Source: https://www.mycfcu.com/content/docs/ncsam-2019-cybersecurity-awareness-trivia_final_508.pdf)
This service allows users to remain anonymous, masking their identity/location and encrypts traffic.
What is a VPN?
This is what "www" stands for.
What is World Wide Web?
Cybercrime went up 600% due to this ongoing event
What is the Pandemic / COVID-19 / Coronavirus?
An independent malware program that self-replicates in order to spread from machine to machine to cause damage.
What is a (computer) worm?
You can protect your home PC with this product.
What is a PC firewall, Anti-Virus software, or Anti-SpyWare software?
(Source: http://www.superteachertools.us/jeopardyx/jeopardy-review-game.php?gamefile=17775#.YEMcnJNKjEY)
This was the decade in which the World Wide Web was created.
What is the 1980s?
This generation is currently the most impacted by cybercrime.
(Gen Z, Millennials, Boomers, etc)
What are Millennials?
(Source: https://www.websitehostingrating.com/cybersecurity-statistics-facts/)
This attack aims to make a service such as a website unusable by “flooding” it with malicious traffic or data from multiple sources (often botnets).
What is Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS)?
This is a method of access control by which users must present multiple, separate pieces of identification, such as a password and keycard, in order to access a system.
What is multi-factor authentication?
(Source: https://www.mycfcu.com/content/docs/ncsam-2019-cybersecurity-awareness-trivia_final_508.pdf)
This is an artificial intelligence system trained on massive amounts of text data to understand, summarize, translate, and generate human-like language.
Example: ChatGPT
What is a Large Language Model?
Over the last year, malware on this operating system has gone up by 165%
What is MacOS?
(Source: https://purplesec.us/resources/cyber-security-statistics/)
This type of attack targets an organization's top officials or highly-salaried employees (C-level) to reveal sensitive information.
What is Whaling?
Companies consider cybersecurity when instructing employees with a policy on BYOD, which is short for this.
What is Bring Your Own Device?
Around 90% of all cyber incidents begin with this type of communication.
What is an email?
In this country, over 130 large-scale cyber attacks occur each year.
What is the United States?
(Source: https://www.websitehostingrating.com/cybersecurity-statistics-facts/)
Criminals access someone's computer and encrypt the user's personal files and data. The user is unable to access this data unless they pay the criminals to decrypt the files.
What is Ransomware?
(Source: https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/quiz/cybersecurity-knowledge/)
When a URL has this at the beginning, it means that the information entered into the site is encrypted
What is "https"?
(Source: https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/quiz/cybersecurity-knowledge/)
This is the world's first widely accepted cryptocurrency.
What is bitcoin?
(Hint: guess # in millions)
What is 10 million?
(Source: https://www.inap.com/blog/19-cybersecurity-national-cybersecurity-awareness-month-2019/)